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xkenroberts wrote:
> What's the toughest climb you know -- on paved roads in the Hudson
> valley south of Albany?
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> What's the biggest climb? as in vertical difference between bottom
> and top elevations?
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> What's your _favorite_ tough climb? The one you actually do the most.
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> pat12601 wrote:
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>> I always get a bit of a chukle when I hear the
>> comentators going on about one of the mountain
>> climbs of the Tour de France
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> I think you're right that some of our climbs in the Hudson valley are
> steeper than many of the climbs in the Tour de France, at least the
> ones in the Alps (I haven't tried the Pyrenees). Though I've heard
> sometimes other big Euro races, Giro d'Italia + Vuelta, have tougher
> climbs (e.g. Monte Zoncolan). I'd say if you can climb Platte Clove
> Rd twice, it's a pretty good bet you can climb the famous Alpe d'Huez
> road.
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> The shortcoming of lots of climbs in the Hudson valley is that
> they're mostly in the trees, so they don't have views like these:
> http://roberts-1.com/t/b07/f/k/e
> http://roberts-1.com/t/b07/f/k/h
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> Ken
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